asajoseph wrote:
Interested to hear Tam's views on Wanyama. Looked good the handful of times I'd seen him this year, but that could easily have been the 'highlights'. Still young though...
I can't say I've seen a lot of Celtic, but firstly I'd be wary of signing anyone from Scotland. The best you'd be looking at doing from a signing from the SPL is a project player who may have the basics you can bring on. There is noone playing here, Wanyama included, that would go into our team or squad and do what we'd be looking for on a consistent basis.
The Champions League games have shown what his game is like and that there's a certain level Wanyama might hit, but I doubt that's a level he could maintain or build upon to any great degree. I'd expect more from his league appearances than he's shown to back up his CL games and show there's a bit more to him.
Scottish football in general has a number of brilliant individual and team displays in Europe and at international level over the years but you still wouldn't take the stars of those games. My opinion is that Wanyama's CL games this year are the same, a player stepping up on a big occasion. At the moment certainly anyway. Whether he goes on to develop over the next few years remains to be seen but I doubt it. He's certainly not good enough for what we need at the moment.
